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The last four hundred years have seen many changes in the nature of the Monarchy in the United Kingdom. From the end of the 17th century, monarchs lost executive power and they increasingly became subject to Parliament, resulting in today's constitutional Monarchy.
- Charles I
Charles I was born in Fife on 19 November 1600, the second...
- Anne
During the final years of the seventeenth century, the...
- The Stuarts
The Stuarts were the first kings of the United Kingdom. King...
- Interregnum (1649-1660)
Cromwell's convincing military successes at Drogheda in...
- Charles I
Category:17th-century English monarchs - Wikipedia. This category is for 17th-century monarchs of England. 12th. 13th. 14th. 15th. 16th. 17th. 18th. 19th. 20th. 21st. 22nd. Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. Charles I of England (10 C, 70 P) Charles II of England (11 C, 61 P)
The table provides a chronological list of the sovereigns of Britain. Sovereigns of Britain. Kings of Wessex (West Saxons) name. dynasty or house. reign. 1 Athelstan was king of Wessex and the first king of all England. 2 James VI of Scotland became also James I of England in 1603.
NameDynasty Or HouseReignSaxon802–839Aethelwulf (Ethelwulf)Saxon839–856/858Aethelbald (Ethelbald)Saxon855/856–860Aethelberht (Ethelbert)Saxon860–865/866- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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- Peter the Great. (First Emperor of Russia) 64 49 Birthdate: June 9, 1672. Sun Sign: Gemini. Birthplace: Moscow. Died: February 8, 1725. Peter the Great ruled the Tsardom of Russia, and then the Russian Empire, from 1682 to 1725.
- Louis XIV of France. (King of France from 1643 to 1715) 57 45 Birthdate: September 5, 1638. Sun Sign: Virgo. Birthplace: Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. Died: September 1, 1715.
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. (Founder of the Maratha Kingdom of India) 425 80 Birthdate: February 19, 1630. Sun Sign: Pisces. Birthplace: Maharashtra, India. Died: April 3, 1680.
- Charles II. (King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1660 to 1685) 42 49 Birthdate: May 29, 1630. Sun Sign: Gemini. Birthplace: St James's Palace, London, England.
This list of kings and reigning queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which later made up modern England.
A timeline of all the kings and queens of England from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present. Who reigned when? Part of the English History guide at Britain Express.
Complementing the search for order and for valid authority in other fields, and arising out of the assertion of rights and the drive to control, a feature of the 17th century was the clarification of ideas about the physical bounds of the world.
